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Social effects of oxytocin in humans: context and person matter.

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It is proposed that this literature can be informed by an interactionist approach in which the effects of oxytocin are constrained by features of situations and/or individuals.
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This article is published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences.The article was published on 2011-07-01. It has received 1311 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social cognition & Prosocial behavior.

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Social Isolation and Loneliness in Older Adults: Opportunities for the Health Care System

TL;DR: This report makes recommendations specifically for clinical settings of health care to identify those who suffer the resultant negative health impacts of social isolation and loneliness and target interventions to improve their social conditions.
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The oxytocin system in drug discovery for autism: Animal models and novel therapeutic strategies

TL;DR: How animal models have been utilized to understand the role of OT in social cognition and how those findings can be applied to the conceptualization and treatment of the social impairments in ASD are discussed.
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A Distributed Network for Social Cognition Enriched for Oxytocin Receptors.

TL;DR: Modulation of inhibition may be a general mechanism by which oxytocin can act throughout the brain to regulate parental behaviors and social cognition.
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The Sociocultural Appraisals, Values, and Emotions (SAVE) Framework of Prosociality: Core Processes from Gene to Meme

TL;DR: This work considers how phenomena such as altruistic punishment, prosocial contagion, self-other similarity, and numerous others give rise to prosocial behavior and extends the reasoning to chart the biological underpinnings of prosociality and apply the framework to understand the role of social class in prossociality.
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Does Oxytocin Increase Trust in Humans? A Critical Review of Research

TL;DR: It is concluded that the cumulative evidence does not provide robust convergent evidence that human trust is reliably associated with OT (or caused by it) and constructive ideas for improving the robustness and rigor of OT research are presented.
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Mindblindness : An Essay on Autism and Theory of Mind

TL;DR: The four steps autism and mindblindness how brains read minds the language of the eyes mindreading - back to the future was discussed in evolutionary psychology and social chess mindreading as discussed by the authors.
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Personality and Assessment

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the acquired meaning of stimuli and on the situation as perceived, viewing the individual as a cognitive-affective being who construes, interprets, and transforms the stimulus in a dynamic reciprocal interaction with the social world.
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Oxytocin increases trust in humans

TL;DR: It is shown that intranasal administration of oxytocin, a neuropeptide that plays a key role in social attachment and affiliation in non-human mammals, causes a substantial increase in trust among humans, thereby greatly increasing the benefits from social interactions.
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A cognitive-affective system theory of personality: Reconceptualizing situations, dispositions, dynamics, and invariance in personality structure.

TL;DR: A theory was proposed to reconcile paradoxical findings on the invariance of personality and the variability of behavior across situations to account for individual differences in predictable patterns of variability across situations.
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